Sarah Palin: We owe our vets health care

In a Memorial Day message, Sarah Palin on Monday said every American should feel “outrage” at what’s happening to the nation’s veterans affected by the Veterans Affairs hospital scandal.

“Every American should feel outrage at any injustice done to our veterans seeking what was promised them when they volunteered to defend the homeland,” the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential nominee wrote in a Facebook post. “They are owed the health care they have already paid for. Friends, be determined to right the wrongs our vets face today.”

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Allegations of delayed care and misconduct at multiple VA hospitals across the country have embroiled the Obama administration in a controversy that has led many to call for Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki to resign.

Referencing Presidents Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln in her post, Palin said that while Americans should enjoy the long weekend they should also remember the soldiers who “are more than just names on gravestones in national cemeteries and battlefields.”

“President Lincoln knew our military heroes as ‘those who gave the last full measure of devotion’ for our freedom; let’s continue Lincoln’s legacy of respect and always keep faith with our veterans. They, more than any, deserve our country’s unending respect and gratitude,” she wrote.